Morning, Krasnoe Selo: The Council of Ministers meets chaired by the Tsar. The meeting endorses the decision to move to partial mobilisation, that is, to mobilise in those military districts facing Austria-Hungary, if it takes action against Serbia.
The meeting also agrees that the general staff should immediately implement the measures for the “Period Preparatory to War” in all European military districts including those facing Germany.
These measures are quickly noticed by German military intelligence and are part of the process in which military considerations become paramount. [More]